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Originally Posted by Hey Connor, It's Mess
Best of luck to ya, Boums. He was the originator of what I refer to my buddies as Bouma-itis; gets a chance in the show and gives it 100% physically every single night, which really isn't sustainable. Eventually he gets complacent in his role as a regular and begins to regress a little. I believe it's the same thing that's happened to Hathaway.
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Yep, that's the thing right there.
It just isn't possible to give 100% balls to the walls all the time because you will wear out real quick. But if you have basically nothing else to offer other than that, then you are really just not good enough to last in the NHL.